Theory of Forms

Life and death are two of the most thought about concepts throughout the human race. These are also the ideas that Robert Warren uses his poem Evening Hawk to address. While the poem appears to be about a hawk flying through the sky with little regard to anything else, including time, a thrush that is still, and a flying bat that is wise beyond what humans can believe, Warren actually uses the poem to deliver a message challenging the concept of time that humans have created. It is through…

The poets uses figurative language and sound devices in order to highlight key details that explains the poem. In other words,the figurative language and sound devices used emphasize important information that reveals the meaning of the work as a whole. In “Sonnet [ On the Death of Mr. Richard West]”, the author is trying to bring across that no matter the situation life keeps on going. While in the poem “ Sonnet 138”, the theme is that love is unconditional. Therefore, these two authors uses…

In Robin Robertson's “Waves,” the speaker compares mental illness to being pulled out to sea. Throughout the entire poem the speaker writes metaphorically. The speaker never states that the things they are describing are being compared to mental illness but there is enough textual evidence to suggest they are speaking about a state of mind rather than a literal physical state. In the first half of the poem, the speaker writes about being in the ocean. They feel as if their mental illness is…

Therefore, poetry verses and the lines of a song often follow a rhyming, expression, and creativity, giving a sense of melody to the verses, even when the lines are merely recited. Amiri Baraka’s poem the “Wailers”, the sounds of music to create a new form of artistic and social expression. The tones…

Nursery rhymes can bring back great memories of your childhood. The story behind many nursery rhymes are based on historical events and the lyrics were written regarding to royal and political events going on at the time. Many do not realize some of the most popular nursery rhymes are based on beheadings, murderers, and taxes. Here are a few examples of these types of nursery rhymes. The words of this well-known nursery rhyme called “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" are: Baa, baa, black sheep, Have…

Although Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth symphonies sound very different, they both originated during the same time period and are closely related in many ways. In the first movement of the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, the relationships between the two can already be identified. While their similarities reveal the new ideas that Beethoven wanted to use in his symphonies at the time, their differences reveal the different paths that Beethoven chose for each symphony. Though the first movements of the…

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov begins Scheherazade with “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship.” To further demonstrate how Rimsky-Korsakov tells a story, the YouTube video will be added to aid in aural understanding, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y; time markings will refer to the listed video. At 0:18, the video begins with the strings in unison marked pesante, along with a deep, bellowing brass section. This marks the introduction of the sultan’s theme. This is followed by woodwinds holding a…

Sonnet 130 Sonnet 130, written by William Shakespeare, is a piece directed towards his mistress and describing a different kind of love toward her. While most poets directly describe the women they love with beautiful descriptions and comparisons to the beauties of life, William Shakespeare’s tone in this poem is sarcastic and mocking to those who exaggerated the praise of women. The poet openly describes his weakness toward the woman, expressing his infatuation for her unappealing features.…

explores a concept of discovery through the character’s individual selves among the worlds in which they are surrounded by. The anthology of the poems, Journey the North Coast, The Meatworks and North Coast Town all provoke an idea of discovery through a form of transformation of a persona. Journey the North Coast illustrates the journey of a man who sets on-board a train along NSW’s North Coast to relive…

There are a lot of adjectives that are used in the poem to suggest the innocence and purity of the boy, which juxtaposition is used by the adjectives and verbs used to describe the invincibility and strength of the Nettles. The poem explores the connotations of the word ‘bed’ and ‘bed of nettles’ and there is a stark contrast to what we associate a bed with and what the bed represents in the poem. Line 1 tells us that the boy’s aged “three” to indicate the boy’s vulnerability, which is then…